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Show 49U DR. A. (iUNTHER ON NEW BATRACHIANS. [June 25, more than the distance between vent and heel. Light olive, a white inferiorly greyish line runs along the canthus rostralis and upper part of the side of the body. Lower leg with a whitish outer margin o A male .specimen from Rio Grande, 38 millims. long ; hind limb 60 millims. Distinguished from H. rubicundula by the white lateral line and sloping loreal region. CALLULA GUTTULATA. (Plate XL. fig. 1.) 31egalophrys guttulata (Blyth). Snout very short, depressed, and obtusely rounded. Skin entirely smooth, without any tubercles. Limbs short, the length of the body being a little more than the distance of the vent from the metatarsal shovel. None of the toes are dilated into disks; hind toes one-fourth webbed ; fingers rather long ; metatarsus with a flat, compressed, sharpish tubercle or shovel. The eye is small, not longer than the snout; a very prominent osseous ridge across the vomer behind the choanae, interrupted in the middle. Tympanum hidden. This species is most beautifully coloured, the ground-colour of the upper parts being a pink or yellowish olive, coarsely marbled with brown, the brown marks being edged by a black line. A long transverse black mark across the vent and hinder surface of thighs. Lower parts uniform yellowish. Several specimens were collected by Mr. Theobald in Pegu. The largest is 50 millims. long ; hind Limb 63 millims. EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXXVII., XXXVIII., XXXIX., XL PLATE XXXVII. Fig. 1. Cystignathus rhodonotus, p. 481. 2. Bufo glaberrimus, p. 483. Fig. 3. Ixalus opisthorrhodus, p. 484. 4. Hyla rhodoporus, p. 488. PLATE XXXVIII. Fig. 1. Glyphoglossus molossus, p. 483. I Fig. 4. Hyla triangulum, p. 489. 2. Hyla dasynotus, 488. 5. Cacotus maculatus, p. 482. 3. Hylodes sallcei, p. 487- PLATE XXXIX. Fig. 1. Polypedates cavirostris, p. 480. 2. Polypedates nasutus, p. 48G. Fig. 3. Polypedates nanus, p. 485. 4. Ixalus macropus, p. 484. PLATE XL. Pig. 1. Callula guttulata, p. 490. | Fig. 3. Hula rubicundula, p 489 2. Rappia lagoensis, p. 487. 4. Hyla Uucotania, p. 489. |